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Midlife Anxiety Can Be Painful, Try This Helpful Tip!

June 6, 2022 by Lane Leave a Comment

Midlife anxiety sucks. It’s a little different than general anxiety because midlife anxiety usually arrives with a bonus feature: an existential crisis thrown in for free! Welcome to Midlife, Here’s Your Anxiety Starter Pack! There is something unique about midlife anxiety. For most of us, we navigate a general sense of anxiety daily. It might…

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: anxiety, journaling, midlife anxiety, mindset, self growth

How To Apologize To Your Adult Kids Because It’s Important

May 13, 2022 by Lane Leave a Comment

Apologizing is hard. Apologizing to your adult kids is even more difficult. As much as I dislike it, as a parent, I have had times when I didn’t handle things well. And as a result, I owed my adult kids an apology. Why Is It So Hard to Apologize To Our Adult Kids? One of…

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Filed Under: Happiness, Love Tagged With: adult kids, emotional maturity, family issues

Empty Nest Grief Is Real, How To Stop The Hurt

April 9, 2022 by Lane Leave a Comment

Empty Nest Grief The past two weeks I have attended two group events, one professional and one social. At each event, I met a middle- aged woman who was struggling with empty nest issues. As I listened to each of them talk, it became obvious that they had unrecognized grief around their children leaving home….

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Filed Under: Happiness, Love Tagged With: adult kids, empty nest, happiness, life after kids

How To Stop Financially Supporting Your Adult Children

January 28, 2022 by Lane Leave a Comment

Do you find yourself financially supporting your adult children? Does it make you feel resentment or anger? Empty Nest Pro Tip: Quit giving your adult kids money to keep them dependent on you. Adult Kids On The Financial Struggle Bus The reality for many parents is that it is too painful for them to watch…

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: adult kids, controlling parents, dependent adult kids, midlife, supporting your adult children

How To Stop Your Inner Bully And Take Back Your Life

January 18, 2022 by Lane Leave a Comment

FACT: Everyone has an inner bully. MORE FACTS: Inner thought bullies keep us stuck. As a result of being stuck, we miss out on taking risks and living our best life. We All Have Behavior Issues All people have behavior cycles that are a result of our mindset. It is part of being human. If…

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: change your thoughts, inner bully, mindset, take risks

Does My Husband Make Me Unhappy?

September 29, 2021 by Lane Leave a Comment

The other day I got a text from a friend, she wanted me to help her figure out why she feels unhappy. This is the question she sent me: How do you determine if your unhappiness is because of marriage/spouse, symptom of current illness or chemical imbalance? After I wrote her a long response, I…

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: fixing unhappiness, marriage issues, personal happiness, unhappiness

Decision Making Skills That Will Improve Your Life

September 15, 2021 by Lane Leave a Comment

Have you ever made a dumb, hasty, immature, reactive or plain stupid decision? Or wished you had better decision making skills? Yup! Of course, you have ‘cause you are human. None of us has the ability to make the right decision every time. It just isn’t possible! This post will help you understand and improve…

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: adult decisions, decision making skills, improve your life, regrets, train your thoughts

How To Be The Black Sheep Of The Family And Why It Is Good For You

September 10, 2021 by Lane Leave a Comment

how to be the black sheep

Where my black sheep at? I am guessing since you clicked on this post that you are different from your family. In fact, you might have even been called ‘the black sheep of the family” at one point. Cool, me too. I am the only person in my family history who has ever been divorced….

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Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: adult kids, black sheep, black sheep life, fused families

Hard Truth: We Marry Our Parents, But Why?

September 9, 2021 by Lane Leave a Comment

Have you ever had an argument with your spouse and suddenly, they seem to transform into your mom? During a conflict, have you ever felt like you are screaming at your dad? And all you can think is : Oh shit, I married my mom. Why Do We Marry Our Parents? Harsh truth: most of…

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Filed Under: Happiness, Love Tagged With: marriage issues, married my mom, marry our parents

Big News!

August 19, 2021 by Lane Leave a Comment

I am back with BIG NEWS! I am DONE with grad school classes! Whooooooo! Although I am still an intern (yes, I AM the oldest intern at my school) I am officially done with the academic portion of my master’s program. I feel like I can breathe again. And more importantly, I have time to…

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